Beaver Tailwaters – Dec 13, 2014

Another great December morning to fish. The weather was nice this morning with temperatures in the very comfortable mid 50’s with no wind and overcast.

I started off with the morning with the trusty ole black zebra midge and started catching almost immediately. After several netted fish, I switched to the copper midge and rusty midge and did pretty well with those as well. I then tried my version of the sub-micro olive jig that I tied this week and caught one pretty quickly, but had some issues right after that. I had a slight tangle at the end of the rod, so reached up the rod to work it loose, and “SNAP” 2 1/2 feet of my 9 ft rod decided to divorce. My heart sunk as I held the two sections.

I was about an hour into fishing when I snapped my fly rod. I initially thought my morning was going to be short, but I continued to fight that short rod for another 3 hours. How and Why did I do that? That’s what I love about Fly Fishing, it’s like the world around you just isn’t there and time moves without you really noticing.